The Butler weekly times., 1887-12-28
THE KELLY FIENDS.
Seven More Corpscs Unearthed.
The Victims Buried Under the House
and in the Barn.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 24-S. T
Gregg, a travelling man, came in
from No-Man' 8 Land to-day and
brought particulars of other crimes
in the strip as well as confirmation
OF the Kelly family horror, with
more facts concerning it. Speaking
of the matter this afternoon he said:
There is no law in the strip and it
is now being occupied by despera-
does of the worst type. Mr. Ran
dolph tells facts concerning the
Kelly family. but I don't know him
and would like to meet him and
compare notes. I stopped about
two months ago at that house in
company with a ranchman of north
ern Texas and another travelling man
We were treated we'll and saw no
signs of intended maltreatment. |
am just from there and learned the
latest developments, Numbers of
parties went from the nearest town
soon after suspicious were aroused
to make an investigation. Looking
under the floor they found three
bodies, one of which was not buried
evidently the last victim. The
other two were buried about two
feet deep and eight feet apart. The
last was a well dressed man, and it
| would seem the two buried were
cattle men. Digging deeper they
| were satisfied of no more bodies be
ing there and commenced to look
the premises over.
SEVEN MORE BODIES FOUND.
About 200 feet west of the house
on the opposite side of the road
stands barn-I judge 25x5O feet
frame, in which the horses of the
travelling public stopping there were
left. They went to the barn or sta
BILE and commenced to dig at the
| door. just at the entrance the
| ground was hard and no corpse was
found there, for you see it would
| not do to loosen the dirt for horses
going into the barn at the door.
just to the left of the door the Dig
gers found the dirt had been loosen
ed up, and going about three feet
found a body almost completely de-
composed. It was unrecognizable,
but the skull was broken, causing
the suspicion that he had been muir
dered. probably by being struck on
the head with an axe. They kept
on digging along the side of the
barn and found seven bodies in the
fifty feet. The fourth found was
| luae VI d "oHihu, auu tue uitH Was
about in the same stage of decompo
sition as the first making it reasona
BILE to suppose that they had beer
travelling together across the coun
try, and stopping there had beer
murdered. The one in the far enc
| of the barn was less decomposec
than the others, and it is believed il
was the last placed there. The par
Ity dug up all the ground in tht
barn but found no more bodies
| They also searched the clubhouse
but found nothing.
ONE BODY PARTLY IDENTIFIED.
| This party was the second to yisi
its work being done the next da,
after those were found under th'
floor. The latter was found by
few who on making the discovery lef
them and reported to Oak City
They did not remove the bodies bu
decided 10 inform the public an,
wait for more concerted action. TIL
circumstance down there don't rails
the excitement that it would else
where, but it was extraordinary TO
that country and created more excite
ment than = usual incident. Onl
one body was recognized and tha
not to certainty. 1t was though
to be Jim Coven. cattleman deal
ing in that section and Texas, h
was found il the barn and was rex
ognlzei more by his eothes TIM
anything else.